User:Babbage

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I have been here since 2003, but I cultivate beginner’s mind.

I have a terrible habit of using curly quotes, it’s a character flaw.



Current Project

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Want to work on an article on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage/Monteverde_Institute

Finally published Fauquier White Sulphur Springs after mumble years. still needs work.

All things Julius Platzmann

here's my scratch file on him:

User:Babbage/Julius_Platzman

User:Babbage/Cumanagoto


And one on dom Pedro II’s tutor,

User:Babbage/Karl_Henning


User:Babbage/Bibliography of lenguas generales

TODOs

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things to improve

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To translate

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https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Barbas_do_Imperador

To Translate

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Bios of linguists

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User:Babbage/Bios of linguists

Native American linguists


Graphics and maps

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  • Languages of Bhutan.
    Languages of Bhutan.
  • Pre-contact distribution of native languages of California.
    Pre-contact distribution of native languages of California.
  • Salinan language.
    Salinan language.
  • Pomoan languages.
    Pomoan languages.
  • Montana Indian Reservations.
    Montana Indian Reservations.
  • California Geomorphic Provinces.
    California Geomorphic Provinces.
  • Tibetan script.
    Tibetan script.
  • Ohlone languages.
    Ohlone languages.
  • Maiduan languages.
    Maiduan languages.
  • Ethiopia Harar map (Amharic)
    Ethiopia Harar map (Amharic)
  • Maya script reading direction.
    Maya script reading direction.


The other problem there is that building out the phonology charts is a HUGE PAIN IN THE NECK. I have no idea how people can stand to produce those things without some sort of tool. I guess people start with existing charts & edit those, but there has _got_ to be a better way.

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Native_languages_of_California

translations i did

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From Portuguese

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From Spanish

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From French

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stuff i started

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I keep this list so I can occasionally see if someone has made an improvement to an article I started.

articles of which i am fond to an utterly absurd degree

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categories i started

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Category:Earliest_known_manuscripts_by_language

Category:Writing systems without word boundaries

language stuff

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languagey people on Wikipedia

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For my future perusal...

· User:Taivo · User:Mark Dingemanse · User:Kwamikagami · User:CJLL Wright · User:Ish ishwar · User:Miskwito ·

notes to self

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hello, self

Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia Help:User_style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babbage/monobook.css

my bookshelf

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The new Pediapress book functionality is really fun. Here's my bookshelf

critical trivia

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The first edit I made was adding an and. ☺

This user is a Buddhist.


old stuff

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The Signpost
17 December 2025
Orange cup coral
Orange cup coral (Tubastraea coccinea) is a large-polyp stony coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region, but has also been introduced into the Atlantic, including the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the West African region, and the Mediterranean Sea. The species is found in a variety of habitats including natural caves and rock faces as well as artificial surfaces such as granite, cement, steel and tile. The polyps of orange cup coral are red, and its tentacles are yellow-orange. The orange cup coral is heterotrophic and does not contain zooxanthellae in its tissues as many tropical corals do, allowing it to grow in complete darkness as long as it can capture enough food, feeding by using its transparent tentacles to capture zooplankton. It spreads using the ocean's currents and can reproduce both sexually and asexually. This orange cup coral was photographed in the Gulf of California off the coast of La Paz in Baja California Sur, Mexico.Photograph credit: Diego Delso
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